Impact of minimal increases in serum creatinine on outcome in patients after cardiothoracic surgery: Do we have to revise current definitions of acute renal failure?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1129-1137

  Lassnigg, Andrea ^a   Schmid, Edith R ^b   Hiesmayr, Michael ^a   Falk, Christian ^b   Druml, Wilfred ^c   Bauer, Peter ^c   Schmidlin, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute Kidney Injury Network classification; Acute renal failure; Cardiac surgery; Mortality; RIFLE; Risk indicators; Serum creatinine changes

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THORAX SURGERY;

EID: 41649114746     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318169181a     Document Type: Article

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